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Title: Rocket track at Lancaster checks out Nation's newest space age equipment
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes; Used in the exhibit "Over Our Heads: Los Angeles Goes From Stargazing to Moon Landing"
Photograph caption dated August 17, 1960 reads, "Dummy wearing X-15 flight suit roars on test sled - Equipment tested at 1,700 mph at Edwards AFB speed track."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00108997
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d008_f28_i36
CARL0005232641
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/44311
Subject: United States.--Air Force
Railroad tracks--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Mannequins (Figures)
X-15 (Rocket aircraft)
Testing
Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.)
Antelope Valley (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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